1614 in history

1614 events chronologically

In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe

Jul 6

Żejtun and the surrounding villages suffer a raid from Ottoman forces. This was the last unsuccessful attempt by the Ottomans to conquer the island of Malta

Aug 23

The University of Groningen is established in the Dutch Republic

Aug 23

Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse

Oct 11

Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony

Nov 8

Japanese daimyo Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian

Top 7 most famous people born in 1614

Jan 5

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria
an Austrian military commander, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1647 to 1656, and a patron of the arts.

Feb 14

John Wilkins
an English clergyman, natural philosopher and author, as well as one of the founders of the Royal Society.
He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death

Mar 25

Juan Carreño de Miranda
a Spanish painter of the Baroque period.

Apr 2

Jahanara Begum
the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal.
She was also the older sister of her father's successor and the sixth Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb

May 11

Franciscus Sylvius
a Dutch physician and scientist who was an early champion of Descartes', Van Helmont's and William Harvey's work and theories.
He was one of the earliest defenders of the theory of circulation of the blood in the Netherlands

Jul 10

Arthur Annesley 1st Earl of Anglesey
an Anglo-Irish royalist statesman.
After short periods as President of the Council of State and Treasurer of the Navy, he served as Lord Privy Seal between 1673 and 1682 for Charles He succeeded his father as 2nd Viscount Valentia in 1660, and he was created Earl of Anglesey in 1661

Top 7 most famous people died in 1614

Apr 7

El Greco
a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance.
"El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his ethnic Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος , often adding the word Κρής

Jul 1

Isaac Casaubon
a classical scholar and philologist, first in France and then later in England, regarded by many of his time as the most learned man in Europe.

Jul 14

Camillus de Lellis
an Italian priest who founded a religious Order dedicated to the care of the sick.

Jul 15

Pierre de Bourdeille seigneur de Brantôme
a French historian, soldier and biographer.

Aug 11

Lavinia Fontana
an Italian painter.
She is regarded as the first woman artist, working within the same sphere as her male counterparts, outside a court or convent

Aug 21

Elizabeth Báthory
a countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary.
She has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history, though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls between 1585 and 1610. The highest number of victims cited during Báthory's trial was 650. However, this number comes from the claim by a woman named Susannah that Jacob Szilvássy, Countess Báthory's court official, had seen the figure in one of Báthory's private books. The book was never revealed, and Szilvássy never mentioned it in his testimony. Despite the evidence against Elizabeth, her family's influence kept her from facing trial. She was imprisoned in December 1610 within Csejte Castle, Upper Hungary, now in Slovakia, where she remained immured in a set of rooms until her death four years later

Sep 27

Felice Anerio
an Italian composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras, and a member of the Roman School of composers.
He was the older brother of another important, and somewhat more progressive composer of the same period, Giovanni Francesco Anerio